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Former U.S. Rep. Clay Shaw, who spent 26 years in Washington battling over everything from free trade to Everglades restoration and welfare reform, has died following a lengthy battle against lung cancer. Shaw's family said in a statement that he died Tuesday at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale. He was 74. The veteran member of Congress rode into office with President Ronald Reagan in 1980 and survived spirited challenges to his seat over three decades only to lose to a Democratic wave in 2006. He campaigned that year to keep his job months after he had a tumor removed...

WASHINGTON — While former Vietnam POW John McCain campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination in Florida, another retired veteran is counting on his military experience to catapult him to victory in the Sunshine State. Retired Army Col. Allen West is campaigning in Florida's 22nd U.S. Congressional District, hoping to unseat freshman Democratic Rep. Ron Klein, who toppled 26-year Republican incumbent Clay Shaw in a contentious battle in 2006. The well-funded and very politically active Klein is not about to give up his seat easily, but West is banking on his notoriety as much as his military experience to make his...

Writing in Roll Call, Stuart Rothenberg gives us his top ten list of most endangered House incumbents. All but one are Republicans. Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) Rep. John Hostettler (R-IN) Rep. Jim Gerlach (R-PA) Rep. Rob Simmons (R-CT) Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM) Rep. Christopher Shays (R-CT) Rep. Mike Sodrel (R-IN) Rep. Clay Shaw (R-FL) Rep. Melissa Bean (D-IL) He says it was a tough list to compile. "Many of the incumbents on this list have proven their political mettle before, and in normal circumstances, they wouldn’t be in all that much trouble. Others find themselves in...

2006 Congressional Election Cycle Has Begun  50 Republican Incumbents Undeserving of Support by Pro-life Voters   The Republican National Coalition for Life PAC is currently receiving phone calls from Republican candidates for Congress in the 2006 Republican primaries. Our usual practice is to mail our Candidate Questionnaire to Republican candidates in each district as soon as the filing deadlines are reached. When we receive the results of the questionnaire, they are recorded on our website at www.RNCLife.org so that voters can see for themselves it those seeking to represent them in Washington are truly pro-life. We hope that this service...

Rep. Shaw: Social Security Faces $26 Trillion DeficitNewsMax.comWednesday, Apr. 28, 2004 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Rep. Clay Shaw, the chairman of the House Ways and Means subcommittee on Social Security, warns that Social Security faces a $26 trillion deficit over the next several decades. He said the pension system needs urgent repairs – and he has a plan for saving Social Security and helping Americans save ... without raising taxes. Last week, Congressman Shaw, the former mayor of Fort Lauderdale who represents a large swath of South Florida, dropped by NewsMax’s offices and explained to our editorial board...

Jim Stork Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives Florida - 22nd District Jim Stork (D) is challenging Rep. Clay Shaw, Jr. (R) from Florida’s 22nd Congressional District. Shaw’s last strong challenge was in 2000 when he won by a mere 494 votes and Gore beat Bush by a solid 6%. Once again, the District will be a top turnout target for Democrats in this year’s presidential election. In March of 2002, Jim Stork, at the time new to politics, won a stunning victory in the race for mayor of Wilton Manors, Florida, defeating an incumbent who had served for 14...

The Warren Report has never been impeached, yet conspiracy theories persist, nay thrive, after 40 years. It's fair to ask why.... Among those who believe in a conspiracy, the most widely accepted theory is that elements of the U.S. government, most conspicuously the CIA, were complicit in gunning down the 35th president in broad daylight.... How is it that Americans have come to embrace a conspiracy theory that reads like a script written by the KGB, the CIA's mortal Cold War adversary? Well, it turns out that Moscow's relentless propagation of that virulent theory and its prevalence here are no...